Do any of my fellow LJ’s make their own wood pellets or pressed wood “bricks” for their wood burning stoves. I’m needing info on how it’s done. I really would love to able to heat my shop with all the dust and shavings I’ve been tossing out.

Being able to make your own pellets sounds like a good idea to me. Pellet stoves are more practical and safer than wood stoves IMO. It would be fun to be able to heat your house with saw dust, scrap paper or the leaves you rake in the fall. This saw dust stove be easier. -Jack

you can compress pellets or discs in PVC pipes with a shop made press.

that said, I wanted to add something on another note – SAFETY : if you do use wood for burning, make sure you use wood that is safe for that purpose – some woods can produce toxic smoke/fumes, and you definitely don’t want to have plywood/manmade sawdust in there, so that might mean that you would have to separate your dust, or think twice before operating machines with certain types of wood in terms of where that dust is going to blow.

jack - that saw dust burner is interesting. I may have to check in on that if something happens to my wood burner. purplev – I have been checking out those log presses and I think that is going to be the easier and cheaper route for me.